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  • I always knew you had at least one puff piece in you...

    ...and I wish it had stayed in you. The movie you should have written about in your piece on Sarah Palin is David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1VHSQV0yn8 Don't think I'm claiming to be what Pastor Ed of Wasilla Assembly of God claims to be - a prophet. One need not have powers of prognostication to know that ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by The Eel on September 9, 2008

  • A Parabola mapping our American Trajectory

    The St. Louis Arch represents all the Progress we made as a modern society in the 20th Century, we Americans, in technology, modernism, business, the arts, journalism, mass media, medicine, education, trade, politics, electrification and electrical generation, automobiles, airplanes, foreign policy, foreign trade, food, democracy, industrial and ...
    Posted to Architecture by MichaelBernard1 on June 14, 2008

  • Great Job!

    Chris, You and Sam Harris are a healthy dose of cognitive therapy for a world that has conflated the concept of inspiration with dogmatic drivel. Cheers! And you are right on the money, we in the rational community have to make it loudly clear that we are not going to tolerate legislation that favors improperly justified claims to morality, ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Gustav Achanz on December 3, 2007

  • Re: Rowling, Sacrifice, Christianity

    I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on this point. Harry's survival doesn't make the book anti Christian in the least, if anything it does the opposite. It seems to me that the foundation of Christianity is not that Jesus died on a cross, but rather that by offering himself as a sacrifice he overcomes death, albeit spritual. In the case of ...
    Posted to The Book Club by salty_bob on July 30, 2007